Credits

Acknowledgements:

The ST4S framework and assessment process is made possible by a range of organisations and contributions. It is the efforts of many jurisdictions working together to improve on the cybersecurity, privacy and online safety in schools.

We would like to acknowledge the following organisations that have made a contribution to the ST4S framework, their ongoing support and interest in the initiative:

• Commonwealth Department of Education
• Department of Education in each State/Territory within Australia
• CENet, Catholic Commissions and Dioceses across Australia
• Australian Independent Schools (AIS)
• New Zealand Ministry of Education
• App Developers and Suppliers who take part in the ST4S assessment process and those providing feedback to the framework.
• The Australian AI Taskforce and their members
• Other organisations and individuals who contribute towards the framework and provide feedback.

Resources and references:

The ST4S framework aligns to many standards and refer to key concepts from other publications and bodies. These include:

• The Australian eSafety Commissioner and their efforts in publications on safety by design and educator resources for online safety
• The OWASP and their publications, projects and other initiatives including online resources and guidance for organisations on cybersecurity and privacy;
• The Australian Cybersecurity Centre / Australian Signal Directorate and their Information Security Manual (ISM)
• The New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)
• Australian Privacy Commissioners including the Office of the Information Commissioner (OAIC) and State Privacy Commissioner’s across Australia
• New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner – Te Mana Matapono Matatapu
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and other relevant publications.

• Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), including their privacy impact assessment (PIA) opensource tool.
• European Union Global Data Protection Board and their opensource tools and resources.

Media and opensource licenses:

The ST4S website, assessment tools (the questionnaire and readiness check) make use of various libraries and images, many which are opensource. This does not include the ST4S, ST4S Product Badge, ESA and NSIP logos which are owned by Education Services Australia Limited (ESA). Other logos for organisations or government agencies and departments (e.g. State Education Department logos on the home page) are subject to copyright or publication rules.

Images for the headings of many pages, news articles and within the assessment questionnaires (e.g. the Readiness Check, Full Assessment etc) are created with OpenAI DALL-E / OpenAI image generation models. Some images are also used from public domain sources or creative commons licensed materials.

Corporate style icons (e.g. the flat people vector style graphics) are from the library https://undraw.co/

We use the Open Sans and Roboto font from Google for the majority of our site and applications.